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How To Rebase and Update a Pull Request

Updated on September 3, 2021
👁 How To Rebase and Update a Pull Request

Introduction

Contributing to open-source projects is a rewarding experience as you work to make software better for end users like yourself. Once you submit a pull request, the process of contributing to a project can require some rebasing and reworking of code prior to acceptance, followed by a general cleanup of your branches.

This tutorial will guide you through some of the next steps you may need to take after you submit a pull request to an open-source software project.

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Thank you very much, Lisa I have just signed up to say it, cos I do rebase last days a lot and this post saves all my mistakes from happening, it is amazing! Cheers :-)

Hi Lisa, Thanks for article. I think it would be better if you use forced push with lease, so that it won’t remove others’ work. Vincent

Under “Complete the Rebase”, shouldn’t it be

git rebase upstream/main

instead of

git rebase origin/main

to rebase your branch on top of the latest version of the project’s upstream code?

Excellent article, I spent some days trying to identify the issue. Thanks…

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